Re: State of the new config & build system

Legacy Fishtank (garzik@havoc.gtf.org)
Fri, 28 Dec 2001 04:26:48 -0500


On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 01:54:42AM +0100, Dave Jones wrote:
> How far down the list was "make it not take twice as long
> to build the kernel as kbuild 2.4" ? Keith mentioned O(n^2)
> effects due to each compile operation needing to reload
> the dependancies etc.

Each compile needs to reload deps???

Ug. IMHO if you are doing to shake up the entire build system, you
should Do It Right(tm) and build a -complete- dependency graph -once-.

Jeff

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/